IELDS Standard: 30.A.ECd
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Play Time
Young children are learning that sometimes, sharing toys and supplies is not helpful. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Fighting Germs
Young children are learning the importance of clean hands and clean environments. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Arriving at School or Childcare
Young children are learning new procedures for arriving at school or childcare. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Face Coverings
Young children are learning to wear face coverings and to see others wearing them. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Physical Distancing
Young children are learning to sit or stand six 6 feet apart from each other, when possible. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Positive Guidance for Young Children: Be Consistent
Young children are learning to manage their behaviors and feelings. They may need many reminders of what appropriate behavior looks like. Clear directions from adults in a calm, firm tone of voice help children know what to do.
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Waiting to Paint
When teachers set out activities that are of high interest to children, conflicts can arise. Being prepared with strategies to help children cope with the challenge of waiting for a turn can minimize conflicts.
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Supporting Children’s Social Development: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers
This list contains a variety of resources associated with strategies for parents and caregivers for supporting a child’s social development.
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Helping Young Children Resolve Conflicts
This list contains a variety of resources associated with helping young children resolve conflicts.
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Helping Children Develop “Impulse Control”
Excitement, joy, anger, frustration, and disappointment are all part of growing up.
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Tech Time for Young Children
Here are some ways families and caregivers can find a healthy balance with technology and electronic media in their daily lives.
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What’s in the Box
Many young children are not accustomed to forming questions, so the teacher has developed a guessing game in which children use questions to help them guess what is in the box.
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Two on a Trike
Prompting young children with words to use to solve social problems is an effective teaching tool.
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Transitioning
Transitions from one activity to another can be fun and educational.
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Please Pass the Water
Maddie demonstrates that the children at this center are comfortable with pouring their own drinks at snack.
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Children’s Social Competence Checklist
Social competence refers to a person’s ability to get along with others. The checklist below was created to help teachers and caregivers assess preschool children’s social competence.
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Work and Play Together
Here are some ways you can help your child learn to get along with others.
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Keep Up the Good Work
Here are some ways you can help them stay with tasks and try hard to complete them even when the job is tough.
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Feelings Are Fantastic
Children are learning the words to express their feelings and how to show feelings in appropriate ways. Here are some ways you can help them to be successful as they learn these important skills.
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Encouraging Words
Encouragement can help children feel good about themselves and develop self-confidence.
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Using Words to Discipline Children
Here are some words to use when you want to change your child’s behavior without yelling, spanking, or being angry.
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Connecting with Parents: “But He Doesn’t Do That at Home!”
Here are some suggestions that may help when parents say, “He doesn’t do that at home!”
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Helping the Often-Angry Child
Teachers can help children learn how to respond to their anger.
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Play and Self-Regulation in Preschool
Are your children aware of their feelings, needs, and impulses? Can they calm themselves, control their behavior, and focus on tasks?
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Dealing with Distraction
If you find that children aren’t paying attention, here are three areas you can check.
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Outdoor Field Trips with Preschoolers: Being There!
These tips can help your class have a good field trip.
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Tearless Transitions
Consistent classroom routines may help, but young children can still find transitions difficult. Good planning helps teachers smooth the way.